Lenara Verle - art, research & etc

Encoded City

lenara — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:58:25 +0000

Cidade Codificada was a locative art workshop I gave in Porto Alegre as part of the 22º SET Universitário PUCRS. It was fun running around town hunting for codes. We documented everything here: cidadecodificada.wordpress.com (portuguese)

Is there a need to disconnect?

lenara — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:52:00 +0000

Continuum, the Itaú Cultural Magazine, interviewed me and other people about strategies to disconnect in an increasingly connected world. I talked about my love for call screening and waterproof cellphones. (Portuguese only PDF and link)

snapshots

lenara — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:38:45 +0000

a collection of snapshots.

things I find curious, images I want to remember, my daily routine…

feed of me

lenara — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:34:47 +0000

I just created a page that displays all my activity from sites like twitter, facebook, flickr, fotolog and the like. Check out here my online trail.

PhD project

lenara — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:15:29 +0000

I’m starting a PhD research at Uni-Frankfurt. I will be studying the Interaction Between Artists in Collaborative Art And New Media. Here is my research project (pdf)

GPS walk

lenara — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 09:10:27 +0000

A walk on a sunny day in Frankfurt. From the Zoo to the River bank. My walked path with pictures taken along the way.

UPDATE: also my Berlin ’round the block picture tour featuring nice cafes, restaurants and sitting opportunities along Kastanienallee and Oderbergerstrasse.

Signages

lenara — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:46:36 +0000

Some pictures of weird, funny, disturbing, nonsensical, ugly, and mildly interesting signs, collected as I walk around. Enjoy.

Intrepid Camera

lenara — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:24:20 +0000

A workshop to build “Intrepid Cameras” and send them to record video of various types of urban explorations, not always available directly to humans. The first edition was in Heidelberg, Germany.

The Tenth Secret

lenara — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:13:21 +0000

An interactive movie made by the Audiovisual Production class at the Digital Communications Program / Unisinos. This project was coordinated by myself and Tiago Lopes, and won the first prize in the web category at the 4th Re-Act Festival.

Tendencies in web art

lenara — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:52:44 +0000

Talk I presented at WIF 2008 about web art tendencies. Among them:

subverted web
the code is the artist
web and the real world
web activism
collective authorship

download presentation pdf (portuguese only)

re|act @ Shanghai eArts

lenara — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:58:38 +0000

I gave a talk about art & collaboration in Shanghai, invited by re|act festival. The presentation is available as a PDF and MP3

China 2007

lenara — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:29:40 +0000

I spent a week in Shanghai, thanks to the kind invitation from Carmen and Wolfram from re|act festival. My eastern adventures are posted at my travel blog.

Dorkbot Salvador

lenara — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:38:41 +0000

The Gridcosm animation was featured at a special women-only edition of Dorkbot Salvador.

There are many Dorkbots around the world. Their motto is: people doing strange things with electricity. This version is organized by Karla Brunet and Mari Fiorelli.

Here are pictures from the event and a radio interview we did to promote it (mp3 excerpt - in portuguese)

Planetary Collegium Summit

lenara — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:52:03 +0000

I presented “MIND VJ - An interface to manipulate moving images in real time using brain waves” at the first Planetary Collegium Summit, in Montreal.

Presentation PDF (with notes)

Maria Cultura

lenara — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:19:45 +0000

I’m a partner at this communication agency dedicated exclusively to cultural-related clients and jobs. Maria Cultura offers services ranging from strategic planning and marketing to design, production and documentation.

Gridcosm DVD

lenara — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 01:36:03 +0000

still in production, a DVD about SITO.ORG’s Gridcosm project featuring among many goodies: extended fly-through animation, articipants interviews and commentary, mini doc/mockumentaries, and more… the most postponed project in Sito’s history, it WILL one day be ready. I hope.

History of Hypertext

lenara — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 22:51:58 +0000

A brief presentation about non-linear narratives, used as a class material.

download pdf (in portuguese)

Talk at the ZKM

lenara — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:23:13 +0000

I gave a presentation at the conclusion of my resident artist program at the ZKM (Center for Art & New Media, Karlsruhe, Germany). The first part was about my project that won the Media Art Award and the residency, Gridcosm 1000-000, and the second part was about the project I developed during my residency, Mind VJ. Both parts are archived on YouTube:

Gridcosm (1st part)

Mind VJ (2nd part)

MIND VJ

lenara — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 01:49:00 +0000

www.mindvj.com

An interface to manipulate images in real-time using brain waves.

project developed with Marlon Barrios (www.dance-tech.net) during an art residency at the ZKM Media Art Center in Karlsruhe, Germany. 2005-2006

gamefilm

lenara — Sat, 16 Apr 2005 03:24:56 +0000

8 teams. 4 countries. a film. a game. a collaborative experience.

I participated in this Internet2 project with a group of students from UNISINOS. Check out the results of our gamefilm

Shuffleupagus Extravaganza

lenara — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 01:23:05 +0000

- three cities
- two hemispheres
- one comic book…

Collaborative Comics at the Flux Factory in New York

my design portfolio

lenara — Thu, 03 Jul 2003 15:29:23 +0000

a sample of my design works, featuring: web, flash, print, illustrations, e-flyers and resume.

Donkey Raver

lenara — Mon, 19 May 2003 20:57:50 +0000

PHOTOGRAPHS & OTHER FICTIONS

A labyrinth built by James Graham

Site designed and realized by Lenara Verle

www.donkeyraver.net

Metaphors and Computer Generated Text

lenara — Mon, 16 Sep 2002 21:01:00 +0000

A paper about generative poetry and reasoning. Written for the Understanding Cybernetics class at the Master of Media Studies Program, New School University.

Lenara Action Figure

lenara — Mon, 29 Oct 2001 13:49:04 +0000

Now you can have your own Lenara in your event!

Who needs fancy telepresence robotics or cyborgs? Using a simple technology called cardboard, you can print and assemble your natural-sized Lenara and customize it by writing the desired speech into the provided talk bubble. Just cut and fold along the lines to assemble!

See you there!!!

Little Movies: from the Kinetoscope to Quicktime

lenara — Sun, 15 Jul 2001 21:19:28 +0000

A paper about Lev Manovich’s piece “Little Movies”. Written for the Interactive Documentary class at the Master of Media Studies Program, New School University.

looping

lenara — Sat, 16 Jun 2001 22:37:27 +0000

exhibit at the Scott Pfaffman Gallery, in East Village, New York. I showed the first “prototype” of the Gridcosm animation video there.

Artists and Articipants

lenara — Thu, 12 Apr 2001 21:34:42 +0000

A short paper about the SITO.ORG website. Presented at the Critical Themes in Media Studies Conference, 2001, New York.

read the paper

4Everybody Open Studio

lenara — Fri, 15 Dec 2000 22:30:00 +0000

Open Studio in Harlem, New York. Works from myself and my room/studiomates, plus guest artists.

PANIC Booth

lenara — Sat, 04 Nov 2000 22:35:09 +0000

PANIC Booth is one of the projects I developed during my art residency at CAAiA-STAR (now Planetary Collegium). It debuted during the SCAN Symposium and Art show in Philadelphia

Project Grey

lenara — Sat, 22 Jul 2000 21:33:46 +0000

Inspired by a painting by Paul Delaroche: The Execution of Lady Grey. I participated together with artists and students who created animations based on the themes provided by the project creator, Manuela Corti.

HyPod

lenara — Fri, 21 Jul 2000 22:33:03 +0000

HyPod is an interactive multimedia installation that invites the public to use their bodies as an interface and, coordinating their movements with other people in the same dark room, navigate a hyperdimensional world of images and sounds created by dozens of artists around the world.

HyPod is based on a Web-based project called HyGrid.

Portland skies

lenara — Thu, 09 Dec 1999 17:49:18 +0000

A tribute to the skies of Portland. They are beautiful and always changing, despite what people may think based on the their rainy fame.

five fascinated, novice historians

lenara — Tue, 23 Nov 1999 19:12:15 +0000

A prolific genius. A dusty basement. And a whole lot of questions….

website built as a result of my art residency in Portland, Oregon, 1999

Jack Dement was the former owner of the house where I stayed. Many of his things were still in the basement, among them documents about his participation in the US atomic bomb project, and a pinch of radioactive dust…

Burning girl

lenara — Mon, 30 Aug 1999 02:02:52 +0000

in 1999 I went to the Burning Man Festival, in Black Rock City, Nevada, and wrote an article about it. (portuguese)

Masters thesis

lenara — Fri, 30 Jul 1999 02:31:28 +0000

I finished my Masters degree at PUC-RS with a research about SITO.ORG’s project GRIDCOSM. It’s called: “NOVAS IMAGENS PARA UM NOVO MEIO - Um estudo de caso do website de arte interativa SITO” and it’s available for download as PDF (in portuguese only)

pilula

lenara — Wed, 21 Jul 1999 10:36:48 +0000

www.pilula.com.br

my webzine. created with Mari Fiorelli

USA 98

lenara — Thu, 12 Nov 1998 04:48:10 +0000

I traveled coast-to-coast the US with my sister. Along the way we took pictures, wrote about our trip and posted all on the web. So did our hosts. Later I collected all the travel reports in a book (pdf)

Lenara Total Immersion

lenara — Thu, 09 Apr 1998 17:36:03 +0000

An overdose of myself. Some friends claim to show this page to roommates before I visit so they can “meet” me. Click if you’re brave, and rotate a 360 QTVR of my head while watching videos and animations featuring yours truly.

Passages

lenara — Mon, 17 Nov 1997 16:24:56 +0000

A collaborative project by Manuela Corti, with artists from around the world, exhibited in Italy at “La coscienza Luccicante: dalla videoarte all’arte interattiva”.

Deep Blue x Kasparov

lenara — Wed, 12 Nov 1997 21:26:59 +0000

Paper about man vs. machine, written for the Sociology of Communication class at the Master of Communications, PUC-RS, and also published at Não-til magazine.

download PDF (in portuguese)

Mona Lisa tours the Internet

lenara — Wed, 22 Oct 1997 21:09:14 +0000

Paper about art, images & digital media. Presented at the International Seminar: “Culture in the Information Age”. PUC-RS, 1997.

Read the paper (in portuguese)

Time and space in cyberspace

lenara — Wed, 15 Oct 1997 09:54:48 +0000

Paper for the class “Communications in the Digital Era”, Masters in Communication, PUC-RS.

download PDF (in portuguese)

corpse chamber

lenara — Sun, 23 Mar 1997 04:18:30 +0000

exquisite corpse meets PANIC. a collaboration between Ed Stastny, Lenara Verle, and SITO.ORG artists. Exhibited at Dr. Jekyll, in Porto Alegre, Brazil together with a party and impromptu PANIC session.

Birthday cyberparty

lenara — Wed, 09 Oct 1996 22:27:16 +0000

Since 1996 I’ve started a tradition of doing a “cyberparty” on my birthday, with invited cyberguests showing up via videoconferencing. Here is some documentation from it and a magazine article (pdf - in portuguese).

Alice’s mirror

lenara — Thu, 18 Jul 1996 22:25:01 +0000

O Espelho de Alice - Digital Art Exhibition at Pinacoteca Barão de Santo Ângelo in Porto Alegre, Brazil. I created an alternative version of SITO.ORG’s Infinite Grid interactive project. This version was made of atoms, instead of bits, and both incarnations were shown side by side at the gallery. Here’s one and two press articles about the exhibit (in portuguese)

SITOme

lenara — Thu, 04 Jan 1996 20:29:26 +0000

My personal page at SITO.ORG

The website has detailed statistics about every artist and project.

HyGrid

lenara — Sun, 31 Dec 1995 21:52:27 +0000

HyGrid is SITO.ORG’s award-winning hyperdimensional collaborative art project. Ongoing since 1995, it has thousands of pieces created by hundreds of artists, including myself.

LEAD Digital Gallery

lenara — Fri, 15 Dec 1995 06:48:10 +0000

I curated this exhibition of digital art with participants from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, plus special guest Chris Johnson.

Infinite Grid

lenara — Thu, 30 Nov 1995 19:54:40 +0000

The Infinite Grid is made of 16 squares. Each square’s image is created by a different artist. They are meant to blend seamlessly with its surrounding squares, crating a bigger picture. The artists can make as many variations to each square as they wish, enabling multiple possibilities for assembling the picture.

The viewer can then choose from the available possibilities. Right now, there are 86,4 billion of different possibilities to assemble the Infinite Grid. The goal is to continue growing and eventually approach infinitude.

I created images and developed an interactive interface with Shockwave/Director for this SITO.ORG project.